Dina Asher-Smith became the first British woman to win a major global sprint title as she stormed to victory in 200m at the World Championships.
The 23-year-old, who won silver in the 100m, was the outstanding favourite and outclassed t…
The third edition of the Kumasi Classics Chess tournament aimed at giving young and upcoming talented chess players the opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the best players in the country has been held.
The annual competition held…
The Ghana Wheelchair Minigolf Association (GAWMA) has officially been outdoored at a brief ceremony in Accra.
The newly formed association under the Ghana Minigolf Federation would seek to identify, train and develop talents in the coun…
William Amponsah – Ghana’s leading long-distance runner is set to compete in the 2019 Onitsha City Marathon in Nigeria on Saturday, October 5.
Amponsah, a student of the University College of Education Winneba, earlier in the year won t…
The National Under-23 team, the Black Meteors have been paired in group A of the 2019 Under-23 Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) Championship.
The championship which would serve as the qualifiers for the 2020 Olympic Games would se…
Ghana Football Association (GFA) Presidential aspirant Wilfried Kwaku Osei alias Palmer has detailed an ambitious plan to construct legacy projects worth an estimated US$19million if he wins the race to become the next GFA President.
In…
Maxwell Konadu - Head Coach of the local Black Stars, has set his eyes on winning the West Africa Football Association (WAFU) 2019 Championship for the third consecutive time, after beating Gambia by a goal in their opening match on Tuesda…
The world’s biggest soccer leagues the Premier League, Serie A and La Liga are underway along with the Champions League and the IAAF World Championship in Doha. For some sports fans a simple alternative is turning to illegal streams online…
The final round of the league for underway on Wednesday 25th September, 2019. Due to the participation of clubs at the Africa Cup for Club Champions 2019 in Egypt this year, the association decided to play some the men and women matches o…
The Vetting Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has dispelled rumours regarding the disqualification of some presidential aspirants ahead of the October 25 elections.
According to a member of the committee, no such decis…
The new Zlatan Ibrahimovic?
That was the question one newspaper asked in September after Norwegian striker Erling Braut Haaland announced himself in the Champions League with a debut hat-trick in Red Bull Salzburg's 6-2 win over Genk.
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Manchester City's Bernardo Silva has been charged with misconduct by the Football Association over a tweet he sent to team-mate Benjamin Mendy.
Silva compared Mendy to the character on a packet of Conguitos - a sweet brand available in …
Australia opener Alyssa Healy hit the highest score in women's Twenty20 internationals with an unbeaten 148 off 61 balls in victory over Sri Lanka.
The wicketkeeper, 29, beat the previous mark of 133 not out set by team-mate Meg Lanning…
Rugby World Cups take time, because the turnaround between games has to allow recovery, and Rugby World Cups create time, because there is only so much training even a professional's body and mind can take.
Into those gaps can come bore…
France needed three late tries to survive a scare and see off the United States for their second World Cup win.
Yoann Huget and Alivereti Raka scored early tries but France conceded regular penalties and made handling errors to keep Gar…
Andy Murray reached his first singles quarter-final in a year by beating fellow Briton Cameron Norrie in the second round of the China Open.
After two tight sets taken on tie-breaks, Murray raced through the decider to win 7-6 (8-6) 6-7…
Great Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson hopes to have eradicated the errors that have previously cost her as she starts her bid to win world heptathlon gold on Wednesday.
The 26-year-old is one of Britain's key medal hopes at the Worl…
It was nervy moments for some clubs in the ongoing Ghana Cricket Association (GCA) President’s Invitational T20 Tournament, as the Net Run Rate (NRR) per match played will decide the semi-finalists after week five matches were honoured on …
Ghana began the West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Championship in Senegal with a lone goal victory over Gambia.
Joseph Esso scored the only goal of the game, to secure a quarter-final spot in the competition for Ghana.
It was a game …
Essex spinner Simon Harmer has been named County Championship Player of the Year by the Cricket Writers' Club.
The 30-year-old was the leading wicket-taker, with 83, and played in all 14 matches of Essex's title triumph.
Somerset bat…
England's World Cup match against Argentina in Tokyo on Saturday will be like a "war", says Pumas hooker Agustin Creevy.
England are top of Group C with two wins from two while Argentina are second after a win and a defeat.
The Pumas…
Of the little green shoots and bright sparks around England's predictably comfortable progress through their opening two World Cup group games, Manu Tuilagi's second try against Tonga perhaps hinted at more than any other.
The first was…
Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah "hasn't done anything wrong" and should not be seen as guilty by his association with banned coach Alberto Salazar, says Steve Cram.
On Monday, Salazar was banned from athletics for four years after b…
A British cyclist is recovering at home after coming off her bike days after winning a bronze medal at the Road World Championships.
Lauren Dolan, 20, suffered a broken collarbone and soft tissue damage in the road crash involving a "fr…
On July 7, former French soccer star Jean-Pierre Adams will reach an unwanted milestone, when he becomes the person in the third-longest coma in recorded history. He is already the male who has spent the most time comatose.
After a botc…
A frontrunner in the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Presidential elections Wilfred Kwaku Osei alias Palmer has denied rumours that he has been disqualified from the race.
Some media reports have suggested that some aspirants will be…
Stop the press... your all-time World Cup XV has been revealed.
More than 160,000 people voted on who should make the final cut, with legendary New Zealand wing Jonah Lomu proving the most popular candidate by taking almost 90% of the v…
Manchester United's rivalry with Arsenal provided the great theatre of the Premier League's formative years and beyond - but those days seemed light years away on Monday at a soggy and dismal Old Trafford.
Long gone is the era when Sir …
Johnny Sexton will captain Ireland as Joe Schmidt makes 11 changes for his side's game against Russia on Thursday.
Rob Kearney, Garry Ringrose, Keith Earls and Peter O'Mahony are the only players to be retained from the shock defeat by …
Asante Kotoko has been relegated to the Confederations Cup Competition after a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Etoile Du Sahel of Tunisia in the second leg of the preliminaries of the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) Champions League.
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Andy Murray impressively beat Matteo Berrettini 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (9-7) at the China Open to set up a second round tie against fellow Briton Cameron Norrie.
Murray, 32, faced a tough test against world number 13 Berrettini, who reached last…
The investigation begins
For years there had been rumours. But they were just that - rumours.
In 2013 I began working on a story about doping in athletics.
Initially, we'd been focusing on historical claims of doping by famous Bri…
Alberto Salazar - Mo Farah's former athletics coach - has been banned from the sport for four years after being found guilty of doping violations.
Salazar runs the Nike Oregon Project - home to British four-time Olympic champion Farah f…
Head coach Scott Booth was delighted to avoid "the really big guns" as Glasgow City were drawn with Brondby in the Women's Champions League last 16.
The Scottish champions were one of the unseeded teams in Monday's draw, with their Dani…
Scottish Women's Football are to speak to clubs over player safety after a second SWPL game in five weeks was abandoned due to injury.
Spartans' Ronaigh Douglas was taken to hospital after a collision in Sunday's match against Celtic, a…
Manchester City will come up against their former striker Toni Duggan after being drawn against Atletico Madrid in the Women's Champions League last 16.
The England forward spent almost four years with City before joining Barcelona in 2…
So far so good. Scratch that - it's really a case of so far, so brilliant.
Wales' intense 29-25 win against Australia means they top Pool D at the half-way stage and have a 10-day break before facing Fiji on 9 October.
But as the pos…
Scotland's controlled performance ensured a bonus-point victory over Samoa that revives their hopes of progressing from World Cup Pool A.
Gregor Townsend's side needed to recover from a poor opening defeat by Ireland, whose subsequent l…
Dina Asher-Smith showed no signs of fatigue from winning 100m silver as she ran the fastest time of the day to reach the 200m semi-finals at the World Championships.
The 23-year-old Briton, who claimed her first major global medal on Mo…
British number one Kyle Edmund has been beaten by a wildcard player at the China Open - his fifth straight defeat.
Edmund, the world number 34, was defeated 6-4 3-6 7-6 (7-5) in Beijing by Zhizhen Zhang, who is ranked 213.
Dan Evans …
West Ham goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski has been ruled out for at least two months with a torn hip muscle.
The Pole, 34, suffered the injury taking a goal-kick during West Ham's 2-2 draw at Bournemouth on Saturday and was substituted in th…
Northamptonshire have re-signed Pakistan all-rounder Faheem Ashraf for the first half of next season.
The 25-year-old played in the T20 Blast for the Steelbacks this year, taking 11 wickets at an average of 19.
Ashraf, a right-arm se…
Barrett brothers Beauden, Scott and Jordie will be the first sibling trio to start in a World Cup for New Zealand when they face Canada on Wednesday.
It will be only the second time three brothers have started a World Cup game, after To…
The empty stands in Doha at the World Championships are not helping athletics and the sport needs to evolve, says ex-British sprinter Darren Campbell.
Doha was awarded the event ahead of Barcelona and Eugene in Oregon, USA, but the lack…
Last season’s runners-up ups RS Berkane of Morocco reached the playoff round of the 2019-20 Total CAF Confederation Cup, when they defeated Ghanaian visitors AshantiGold (Ashgold) who played almost full time with 10 men 2-0 at Berkane Muni…
World Cup winner Sydney Leroux was back in action for Orlando Pride on Sunday - just three months and a day after giving birth.
The Orlando Pride striker was an 88th-minute substitute in her side's 1-1 draw with Sky Blue FC in New Jerse…
For almost a decade, they were the top two teams in English football.
Manchester United and Arsenal face off again in the Premier League on Monday (kick-off 20:00 BST), but there is a feeling that it has become somewhat of a lost rivalr…
Rory McIlroy has admitted that the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship was "not the right place" to voice criticism of European Tour courses.
But the Northern Irishman is sticking with his call for "tougher set-ups".
McIlroy had spoken…
Sebastian Vettel was resistant to move over for his team-mate in the Russian Grand Prix on Sunday - reneging on a pre-race agreement to let Charles Leclerc back past him to win.
Was Vettel's team order resistance a classic case of F1 dr…
Dina Asher-Smith's 100m silver at the World Championships puts her in the frame for further success at next year's Olympics, says Denise Lewis.
The 23-year-old had been tipped to win three medals in Doha, and achieved the first goal whe…
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